Calling a retrospective “History of the Universe” may seem like a tall order (that’s quite a lot of ground to cover), but for Jennifer Bartlett’s survey at the Parrish Art Museum, the title is apt. Spanning 40 years of her career, the exhibition locates the focal point of Bartlett’s artistic universe—house and home—through dreamy oil paintings and silkscreens.

In what is arguably Bartlett’s most recognizable series, the same childlike house appears again and again, often in vastly different hues and textures. But Bartlett also captures serene, slightly abstracted domestic scenes, a sort of walkthrough of the artist’s day-to-day. The painting Eleven P.M. shows notes scrawled on scraps of paper strewn across a table. A handful of cash and change sits in the foreground, as if just casually pulled from a pocket. In Eleven A.M., wood and cardboard boxes rest near unread newspapers on the floor, a small peek at the clutter of Bartlett’s home or studio.

But perhaps the most quietly touching works on view are two small silkscreens, one portraying the Earth from the perspective of an astronaut on the moon and the other Mars. Done in the early 1970s, amid public obsession over the Apollo moon landings, these pieces reflect that hopeful moment when Bartlett turned from her own personal universe to the one at large.